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Title: Fannie Dunn Quain
Dates: 1880-1939
Collection Number: 00091
Quantity: 652 images (some loose and others in six albums) and one album
Abstract: Early images of Bismarck, Yellowstone National Park, Hot Springs (S.D.), postcards, and many unidentified portraits.
Provenance: The Fannie Dunn Quain Papers were acquired as a gift from Mrs. Marion Kaiser in 1950 and the Medical Library of The Quain and Ramstad Clinic of Bismarck in 1979. The photograph collection was separated from the Quain manuscript collection.
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MSS 10023 Fannie Dunn Quain
HISTORICAL SKETCH
Fannie Dunn Quain was born on February 13, 1874 in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. She graduated from University of Michigan's School of Medicine in 1898. Dr. Quain served her internship at the Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and opened her own office in Bismarck in 1899.
Fannie Dunn Quain was one of the first white children born in the small prairie village of Bismarck, and later became as aficionado of the history of the capital city and later the state as a whole. The daughter of druggist John Pratt Dunn II, Mrs. Quain developed an early interest in the field of medicine as well; as one might expect, however, her gender proved to be an obstacle in late 19th century society. In addition, she was the first North Dakotan to enter and graduate from medical school.
Mrs. Quain grew up in a home where entertaining notable Dakota Territory social, political, and military leaders was relatively common. She developed an interest in the history and politics of the Territory and later the State. Perhaps the most famous friend of the family was Mark Kellogg, the Bismarck Tribune reporter killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Many years later, Dr. Quain turned over the blood-stained diary of the reporter to the Bismarck Tribune for keeping in their archives. The diary is now part of the manuscript collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Dr. Quain is perhaps best remembered for her work against tuberculosis and the establishment of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association. In addition Dr. Quain set up the first "baby clinic" in the state and worked hard to educate the public on diseases. A year before her death, Fannie Dunn Quain received the "Fifty Year Club" pin for her professional service as a physician in North Dakota.
Fannie Dunn Quain married Dr. Eric Quain in 1903; they had two children, Buell and Marion. Her son Buell won acclaim as an anthropologist, and is best remembered for his work in the Brazilian jungles with an obscure Indian group. Buell succumbed while working in South America, the apparent victim of an illness in 1939.
Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain died of a heart attack on February 2, 1950 in Bismarck, eleven days short of her seventy-sixth birthday.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00091-0001 Chasing Bear
00091-008b Group ice skating
00091-0013a Ice skating, two women and baby in ice carriage
00091-0175 J. P. Dunn and Mrs. Dunn in a group
00091-0176 St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Broadway, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-0177 I. N. Harbaugh Land & Law Office
00091-0179 13th U.S. Cavalry on the march
00091-0180 To Arms To Arms 1898
00091-0181 Portrait of a Chinese man. Photographer: L. D. Judkins, Bismarck, Dakota 1887
00091-0182 Captain with petrified tree trunk. Photo inscribed by Frank Fiske to Captain Belk. See 1952-3961
00091-0183 N. F. Boucher, W. F. Cochrane, William A. Falconer in a law library
00091-0189 Mrs. J. B. Tabour
00091-0191 E. L. Faunce, Emma and Hattie
00091-0194 Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain and Mrs. Laura Belle Ward ____?
00091-0197 Sister Seraphine, F. B. Fiske, Fort Yates, N.Dak. see 1952-2847
00091-0198 Portrait of a nun, F. B. Fiske, Bismarck, N.Dak.
00091-0199 Boarding School girls and Sister Seraphine, F. B. Fiske, Fort Yates, N.Dak.
00091-0200 Indian Children "Guying" a "Tenderfoot"
00091-0201 Indian game, On-Na-Wa-Chea
00091-0202 Indian man in a canoe
00091-0203 Unidentified Indian man
00091-0204 Piegan Indian Warrior
00091-0205 Tall Man Dan (Sioux)
00091-0206 Red Crow
00091-0207 Chasing Bear
00091-0208 Rain-In-The-Face
00091-0209 Red Tomahawk
00091-0210 Indian man in a canoe
00091-0211 Unidentified Indian man
00091-0212 Charles Bentley, Hot Springs (S.D.) Photographer: W. R. Cross
00091-0212 Charles Bentley, Sulphur Spring, Hot Springs (S.D.) Photographer: W. R. Cross
00091-0213 Editor’s Excursion to Hot Springs, S.D. and Gillespie Hotel Photographer: W. R. Cross
00091-0214 Sanatarium, Hot Springs (S.D.) Photographer: W. R. Cross
00091-0216 E. L. Faunce Paint Shop, about middle of the block north side of Broadway between 7th & 8th Streets, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-0217 Wood frame home, with many trees, barbed wire fence in front of house and small child
00091-0218 Former Governor’s Mansion
00091-0218 Sakakawea Statue, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-0224 Little Goose Canyon
00091-0226 Rapids, Yellowstone National Park
00091-0240 Fannie Dunn, age 17, Stella Tabour
00091-0241 Belle Ward, Fannie Dunn, Mabel Hunt, World’s Fair Chicago 1893
00091-0243 First all women jury in North Dakota, Bismarck (N.D.) July 26, 1923
00091-0250 Fannie Dunn
00091-0251 Fannie Dunn 1880
00091-0252 Dr. Fannie Dunn June 13, 1899
00091-0253 Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain
00091-261 Mrs. Vint Craven Gertrude Evarts and Fannie Dunn Quain
00091-0262-01 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, lion
00091-0262-02 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, shooting birds from a plane
00091-0262-03 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, lion
00091-0262-04 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, elephant
00091-0262-05 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, snake
00091-0262-06 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, leopard
00091-0262-07 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, giraffe
00091-0262-08 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, ostrich
00091-0262-09 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, crocodile
00091-0262-10 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, gorilla
00091-0262-11 Teddy’s hunting adventures in Africa, rhinocerous
00091-0263 Civic Improvement League garden, Bismarck (N.D.) 1909
00091-0264 Sakakawea statue, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-0265 Shorty, the horse
00091-0281 Inspiration Point, Yellowstone National Park (Wyo.)
00091-0282 Yellowstone Falls (Wyo.)
00091-0283 Going to the Sun Mountain, Glacier National Park (Mont.)
00091-0284 Lone Star geyser, Yellowstone National Park (Wyo.)
00091-0300 Group inside Wind Cave National Park, Hot Springs (S.D.)
00091-0311 Buffalo Polson
00091-0312 Bad Lands
00091-0313 Shoshone Canyon
00091-0314 Crow’s Nest Lake
00091-0315 Rustic Falls
00091-0316 Petrified tree trunk
00091-0317 Lake McDermott Chalet
00091-0318 Spouten by the Giant
00091-0319 Jackson Lake
00091-0320 Grotto Geyser
00091-0321 Yellowstone Canyon
00091-0322 Golden Gate
00091-0323 One side of Grotto
00091-0324 Dead Man’s Gulch
00091-0325 Powder River
00091-0326 Lone Star
00091-0327 Town on Flathead Lake
00091-0328 Holy City
00091-0329 Tetons
00091-0330 Bear in Elk Park
00091-0331 Logan Falls Lake McDermott
00091-0332 Divide Mountain
00091-0333 Triple Divide Peak, Hudson Bay Divide
00091-0334 Goat Mountain
00091-0335 Going to the Sun Glacier from St. Mary Lake
00091-0336 Rock over road, Glendive (Mont.)
00091-0337 East of Hudson Bay Divide
00091-0341 Ostrich
00091-0347 Elk River Canyon
00091-0352 Many Glacier Camp
00091-0353 Logan Falls
00091-0363 Tetons
00091-0364 Tent camping on Powder River “let ‘em buck”
00091-0365 Deer
00091-0366 Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
00091-0367 Yellowstone Canyon
00091-0368 Powerhouse Hebgen Dam, Gallatin County, Mont.
00091-0369 Yellowstone Canyon
00091-0370 Holy City
00091-0371 Stile “sailing down to Buffalo”
00091-0374 Mrs. Reed, Chattanooga
00091-0379 Obelisk commemorating US Army, Arikara Scouts, and civilian dead at Little Big Horn
00091-0395 Rosa Carroll, 79 yrs, 4 mo, December 28, 1930, my dog Shep
00091-0396 Mother Campbell
00091-0397 Dan Campbell age 16
00091-0410 “My life is full of weary days” 1601 3rd Ave. S, Fargo, N.Dak.
00091-0411 Day after storm of February 22, 1922
00091-0416 Margaret, age 10
00091-0422 Donald, Harald and my self
00091-0430 Yellowstone Park July 26, 1920 Mrs. Lucken and 3 Dunlaps
00091-0434 View from our front window
00091-0440 “One nice day February 28, 1922” baby in buggy
00091-0446 Sister and boarding school children. Likely a Fiske photo
00091-0447 Boarding school girls pulling a sister and little girl in a wagon
00091-0448 Jack’s daughter, Frances, and son
00091-0449 – 0450 Street scene, possibly Edinburgh, Scotland
00091-0451 Hells Half Acre, Wyo.
00091-0455 Indian altar – offerings to the spirits
00091-0456 Crater Lake, Ore.
00091-0457 Salt Creek Falls, Ore.
00091-0458 Grant’s Tomb, Manhattan, NYC
00091-0466 Geyser
00091-0474 The resting place of Josephine R. Wakeman, Forest Lawn Memorial Park
00091-0477 See 00091-0252 Dr. Fannie Dunn June 13, 1899
00091-0478 Freight depot in deep snow. Photographer: F. B. Strauss, Bismarck, N.D.
00091-0479 The Ben Troyato family, Manitou, Colo.
00091-0480 Group of women on burrows at Manitou, Colo.
00091-0483 Robin and his colored friends
00091-0488 Leonard Stroup champion trick rider 1923
00091-0489 Mable Strickland champion lady trick rider, Belle Fourche, S.D.
00091-0491 Leonard Stroup on Indian Tom, Cheyenne, Wyo.
00091-0492 Sample of the bareback horses, Tri State Round-up, Belle Fourche, S.D.
00091-0493 “Moore makes ‘em buck”
00091-0495 Joseph Taylor Dunn 1867
00091-0499 Postcard – Red Star Line Antwerp-New York written by Mrs. E. P. Quain homeward bound to New York
00091-0502 Two ladies on board ship holding sign Breslau Bremen
00091-0503 Couple in chairs on ship deck
00091-0504 Mrs. Burton
00091-0505 Compliments of C. S. Moore
00091-0508 Mark Twain and his boyhood home, Hannibal, Mo. postcard dated 1914
00091-0509 Jefferson Davis Hotel, Montgomery, Ala. postcard dated 1936
00091-0510 Haiti postcard dated 1936
00091-0511 Dempsey Hotel, Macon, Ga. postcard dated 1936
00091-0512 Wild columbine postcard dated 1933
00091-0513 Tunnel and bridge on Iron Mountain Road, Black Hills, So.Dak. postcard
00091-0514 Scene on Needles Road, Custer State Park, Black Hills, So.Dak. postcard
00091-0515 Crystal Cave, Black Hills, S.D. postcard
00091-0516 Twin tunnels on Iron Mountain Road to Mt. Rushmore postcard
00091-0517 Napoleon Bonaparte House, New Orleans, La. postcard dated 1936
00091-0518 Fort Loudoun, built by George Washington, Winchester, Va. postcard dated 1936
00091-0519 Yosemite National Park postcard
00091-0520 First Avenue M. E. Church, St. Petersburg, Fla. postcard dated 1936
00091-0521 Gandy Bridge between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. postcard dated 1939
00091-0522 Hall of the Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn. postcard dated 1936
00091-0523 The Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn. postcard dated 1936
00091-0524 Hennepin Ave. M. E. Church, Minneapolis, Minn. postcard dated 1936
00091-0525 Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati postcard dated 1936
00091-0526 Panorama view if Nice, France postcard
00091-0527 Broadway, Aurora, Ill. postcard dated 1912
00091-0528 General U. S. Grant home, Galena, Ill. postcard dated 1936
00091-0529 Cheyenne Lodge, Colo. postcard dates 1932
00091-0530 Out Where the West Begins, Hopi Pueblo postcard dated 1936
00091-0531 Cowboy’s Prayer postcard
00091-0534 Fannie Dunn Quain in riding habit
00091-00535 Medicine Man taken at Battle of Wounded Knee (S.D.) 12/29/1890
00091-00536 Lieutenant M. W. Cooke ca. 1875
00091-00537 Lieutenant John J. Crittenden III ca. 1875
00091-00538 T. P. Davis 08/1872
00091-00539 Captain Owen Hale ca. 1875
00091-00540 Lieutenant Henry Moore Harrington, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment ca. 1876
00091-00541 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin H. Hodgson, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, Co. B ca. 1876
00091-00542 John J. Jackman, Burleigh County Pioneer ca. 1880
00091-00543 Captain Miles (Myles) Walter Keogh, 7th Cavalry, Fort Abraham Lincoln (D.T.) 1874-1876
00091-00544 Captain Miles (Myles) Walter Keogh, 7th Cavalry, Fort Abraham Lincoln (D.T.) 1874-1876
00091-00545 Officers and ladies of the 7th Calvary, Fort Abraham Lincoln (D.T.) 1875
00091-00546 1st Lieutenant James E. Porter, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment 1846-1876
00091-00547 1st Lieutenant Algernon Emory Smith, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment 1874-1876
00091-00548 Lieutenant John Sturgis, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment 1874-1876
00091-00549 2nd Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment 1878
00091-00550 Captain George Wilhelmus Mancius Yates, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment 1874-1876
00091-00551 Amil P. Lenhart12/25/21902
00091-00552 Fannie Dunn 1888
00091-00553 Female students in Minnesota ca. 1880
00091-00554 Margaret Merrill ca. 1880
00091-00555 Bert Bogue ca. 1880
00091-00556 George Glass, Jr. ca. 1880
00091-00557 George Glass, Jr. ca. 1900
00091-00558 Norma Fowler ca. 1880
00091-00559 Minnie Stoyell ca. 1885
00091-00560 Mrs. Laura Isabella Ward Shute 1903
00091-00561 Henry Suttle 1869
00091-00562 Eliza Maria (Mrs. Henry) Suttle ca. 1880
00091-00563 Eliza Maria (Mrs. Henry) Suttle ca. 1895
00091-00564 Cassius (Cash) O. Dunn ca. 1870
00091-00565 Cassius (Cash) O. Dunn ca. 1874
00091-00566 Cassius (Cash) O. Dunn1882
00091-00567 Cassius (Cash) O. Dunn 1900
00091-00568 Cassius (Cash) O. Dunn ca. 1890
00091-00569 Ruth Dunn ca. 1877
00091-00570 Cecil Taylor, Ben Belk, Ralph Ward ca. 1895
00091-00571 John Hall ca. 1885
00091-00572 Mrs. Hooper ca. 1895
00091-00573 Clifton House, White Sulphur Springs, (W.V.)1891-1892
00091-00574 Judge John Bowen 06/1872
00091-00575 Piatt Dunn and his first deer09/22/1894
00091-00576 Mary Bell Falconer ca. 1880
00091-00577 Mrs. Hooper ca. 1890
00091-00578 Edward Little Faunce ca.1900
00091-00579 James A. Emmons1884-1889
00091-00580 Frank Muggy XX
00091-00581 Abe Eppinger 1898-1910
00091-00582 Rolla Foley ca. 1890
00091-00583 Hannah Griffin ca. 1890
00091-00584 Dolly Dietrich (Mrs. Patrick E.) Byrne 1903
00091-00585 Fred Straus ca. 1890
00091-00586 J. W. Proctor ca. 1880
00091-00587 Jessie MacNider ca. 1895
00091-00588 Walter Fraser ca. 1895
00091-00589 Fannie Dunn, 16 months old 06/1875
00091-00590 Katherine Staley ca. 1895
00091-00591 Fannie Ryan ca. 1895
00091-00592 Anna Williams ca. 1895
00091-00593 Cecil Taylor XX
00091-00594 Joseph Henry Taylor ca. 1875
00091-00595 Fannie Piatt Dunn ca. 1890
00091-00596 Fannie Dunn and Marian Quain ca. 1915
00091-00597 Fannie Dunn Quain on horseback ca. 1905
00091-00598 Fannie Dunn Quain with bicycle, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1905
00091-00599 Sadie Lanterman ca. 1890
00091-00600 Ruth Dunn ca. 1880
00091-00601 John Piatt Dunn ca. 1900
00091-00602 Aldyth Ward 1894
00091-00603 Old Missouri River freight house, interior view, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1900
00091-00604 Gas boat Expansion at unknown landing ca. 1920
00091-00605 Steamboat Washburn unloading Case steam tractor 1901-1918
00091-00606 James W. Foley ca. 1890
00091-00607 Man on a horse fording a river XX
00091-00608 John Yegen and an unidentified man ca. 1900
00091-00609 Portrait of a 1st Lieutenant, 7th Cavalry, Fort Lincoln (D.T.) 1870-1879
00091-00610 Portrait of a 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Cavalry, Fort Lincoln (D.T.) 1870-1879
00091-00611 Unidentified woman, Fort Lincoln (D.T.) 1870-1879
00091-00612 Unidentified woman XX
00091-00613 Gall ca. 1890
00091-00614 Loving cup 1950
00091-00615 Fannie Dunn Quain outside house, Bismarck (D.T.) 1880-1890
00091-00616 Edith Wakeman Hughes ca. 1905
00091-00617 Major Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly 4/1890
00091-00618 Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly, Government Scout 4/1890
00091-00619 H. N. Ross, Dick Stone, Harvey Carhoof, and Jack Cale visit the Black Hills 1875
00091-00620 Harry Sims XX
00091-00621 Josephine R. (Mrs. James D.) Wakeman circa 1880
00091-00622 Christina C. (Mrs. John P.) Dunn, age 25 circa 1881
00091-00623 Sister Sabina XX
00091-00624 John Wholen 1872
00091-00625 Frank Rawlings XX
00091-00626 Alex Hughes XX
00091-00627 John Piatt Dunn XX
00091-00628 Girls basketball team1902
00091-00629 Bismarck High School graduating class 1893
00091-00630 Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain, baby Marion Quain, and Dr. Eric P. Quain ca. 1910
00091-00631 First home of John P. Dunn, Broadway Ave., Bismarck (N.D.) 05/1873
00091-00632 Pioneer Family Statue, State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) 08/00/1939
00091-00633 Pioneer Family Statue, State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) 08/00/1939
00091-00634 Sakakawea Statue, Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1935
00091-00635 John Piatt Dunn XX
00091-00636 Charles J. Fisk 1916
00091-00637 Edith Wakeman Hughes 1893
00091-00638 John P. Hoagland 1895
00091-00639 Helen Hughes circa 1895
00091-00640 Edith Adele Wakeman (Mrs. Ed) Hughes 1893
00091-00641 Eric P. Quain family ca. 1915
00091-00642 Frances Hare 1903
00091-00643 Chief Gall XX
00091-00644 Gussner's Store, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1906
00091-00645 Mrs. John Piatt Dunn circa 1936
00091-00646 Doll Dietrich (Mrs. Patrick E.) Byrne and her son Bill 01/07/1908
00091-00647 David F. Barry 1907
00091-00648 Pioneers of Bismarck (N.D.) 1900
00091-00649 John Piatt Dunn XX
00091-00650 Lieutenant James Calhoun circa 1875
00091-00651 Pioneer women at a luncheon at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Bismarck (N.D.) 01/14/1919
00091-00652 Painting of an Indian man XX
00091-Album 7-page001-02 E. A. Williams
00091-Album 7-page002-01 Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge and steamboat landing, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-Album 7-page002-04 Dr. E. P. Quain residence, 518 Avenue A, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-Album 7-page003-02 J P Dunn residence 6th Street moved to 3rd Street, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-Album 7-page003-03 Northern Pacific Railroad Depot, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-Album 7-page004-03 Civic Improvement League garden, Bismarck (N.D.) 1909
00091-Album 7-page004-06 First market day scene, Bismarck, N.Dak.
00091-Album 7-page005-05 E. A. Williams
00091-Album 7-page005-06 Troops march in parade in front of Bismarck Grocery Co.
00091-Album 7-page006-01 Camp Hancock, Bismarck, (N.D.) ca. 1910-1912
00091-Album 7-page006-02 Northern Pacific Railroad Depot, Bismarck (N.D.)
00091-Album 7-page008-02 Homan’s Restaurant & Bakery, 1st National Bank, 4th Street, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1903-1909
00091-Album 7-page 13-01 Ice skating, two women and baby in ice carriage
00091-Album 7-page 13-02 Buck Quain riding a mule
00091-Album 7-page 17-01 Woman feeding chickens
00091-Album 7-page 13-02 View of Edith’s Garden Party
00091-Album 7-page 13-03 Theodore Roosevelt cabin
00091-Album 7-page 18-01 Cars of L Duggan, Butte (Mont.) and Mrs. J. P. Dunn, Bismarck (N.D.) 1916
00091-Album 7-page 18-03 Jack Hanson’s room
00091-Album 7-page 18-04 Minnehaha Falls, Portland (Ore.)
00091-Album 7-page 19-01 Buck Quain riding a mule
00091-Album 7-page020-01 Sakakawea Statue ca. 1915-1920
00091-Album 7-page020-02 Mrs. J. P. Dunn’s car crossing the Little Missouri River August 10, 1915
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